Jana Krohova, Luca Faes, Barbora Czippelova, Riccardo Pernice, Zuzana Turianikova, Radovan Wiszt, Nikoleta Mazgutova, Alessandro Busacca, Michal Javorka
Baroreflex response consists of cardiac chronotropic (effect on heart rate), cardiac inotropic (on contractility), venous (on venous return) and vascular (on vascular resistance) arms. Because of its measurement simplicity, cardiac chronotropic arm is most often analysed. The aim was to introduce a method to assess vascular baroreflex arm, and to characterize its changes during stress. We evaluated the effect of orthostasis and mental arithmetics (MA) in 39 (22 female, median age: 18.7 yrs.) and 36 (21 female, 19...
March 26, 2020: Journal of Applied Physiology